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Human Rights – 2005

The 60-Member National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) was formed on 23 April 2005; and the commission began drafting a new interim constitution on 30 April. The draft interim constitution was adopted by the National Assembly and the SPLM National Liberation Council on 6 July 2005.¹ The constitution came into effect on 9 July 2005. The Human Rights provisions, including provision to establish the National Human Rights Commissions (NHRC), were incorporated in the interim constitution. Article 142 of the interim constitution contains provisions for the NHRC. The process for establishing the NHRC, however, was not initiated in 2005. Without the Human Rights Commission Act, the commission would not be established.

With respect to human rights improvements in Sudan, the 2005 CPA brought little change. As per the CPA requirement, the government lifted state of emergency throughout Sudan but Darfur and the east. Nevertheless, human rights violations such as arbitrary arrests and detentions, killings, looting, and rape took place on a regular basis.²

1. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, March 2006.
2. “World Report — 2006,” Human Rights Watch, 2006, accessed January 23, 2012, http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/wr2006.pdf.